02024cam a2200313Ia 4500 4075 4075 20718570 OCoLC 20181128163935.0 891201t19661951nyu b 000 0 eng d 0060800712 (pbk.) : $4.95 9780060800710 (pbk.) (OCoLC)20718570 OCO OCO IXA YBM OCLCQ DAY 301.15 H698T HM281 .H6 1966 303.484 H698t 20 Hoffer, Eric The true believer : thoughts on the nature of mass movements / Eric Hoffer 1st Perennial library ed New York : Perennial Library, 1966, c1951 160 p. ; 20 cm Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-160) I: The appeal of mass movements -- The desire for change -- The desire for substitutes -- The interchangeability of mass movements -- II: The potential converts -- The role of the undesirables in human affairs -- The poor -- The new poor -- The abjectly poor -- The free poor -- The creative poor -- The unified poor -- Misfits -- The inordinately selfish -- The ambitious facing unlimited opportunities -- Minorities -- The bored -- The sinners -- III: United action and self-sacrifice -- Preface -- Factors promoting self-sacrifice -- Identification with a collective whole make-believe -- Deprecation of the present -- "Things which are not"Doctrine -- Fanaticism -- Mass movements and armies -- Unifying agents -- Hatred -- Imitation -- Persuasion and coercion -- Leadership -- Action -- Suspicion -- The effects of unification -- IV: Beginning and end -- Men or words -- The fanatics -- The practical men of action -- Good and bad mass movements -- The unattractiveness and sterility of the active phase -- Some factors which determine the length of the active phase -- Useful mass movements Social groups Social psychology Fanaticism Marianists Books and reading ddc BK 0 0 ddc 0 1 NFIC HMC HMC GEN 2018-11-28 120.00 0 301.15 H698T 004686 2018-11-28 00:00:00 2018-11-28 BK